From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2006-09-27T21:15:50+09:00 Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods Hi, In message "Re: String starts? and ends? methods" on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:53:54 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes: |It's not that I didn't believe you :-) It just seems a bit unusual, |in terms of the general Ruby practice. Makes sense. It was just honoring the origin (this case Python). Since they are young (I just added it last week), it is fairly easy to change the names. Any opinion? matz.